IWMF Speaker Biographies
Voices of Women Media
Leaders
September 15, 2003 * New York
Kathleen Carroll has been executive
editor of the Associated Press since July 2002. She is the wire service’s
senior news executive. She returned to the AP after having served as
Washington, DC bureau chief for Knight Ridder since 1999.
Carroll first joined the AP in 1978 in Dallas and later held editing positions in the Newark, N.J., Los Angeles and Washington, DC bureaus. Earlier, she was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and an editor for the International Herald Tribune and the San Jose Mercury News.
Carroll has served on the readership committee and the craft development committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and is currently on the executive committee of the Associated Press Managing Editors.
Charlotte Hall is vice president and managing editor of Newsday where she is responsible for overseeing news coverage. Hall joined Newsday in 1981 and has served as copy chief, metropolitan editor in Queens, Nassau editor, Washington news editor, assistant managing editor for Long Island and marketing director for the paper.
Hall began her newspaper career as a reporter at the Ridgewood (N.J.) Newspapers. She also held editing posts at The (Bergen, N.J.) Record, the Boston Herald-American and the Washington Star.
Hall is on the board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has served as chair of ASNE’s diversity committee. She has twice been a Pulitzer juror and also chaired the Pulitzer breaking news panel.
Susan King is vice president, public affairs at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is responsible for the corporation's communications, including its publications, website and dissemination programs.
Before joining Carnegie, King spent 20 years as a journalist covering national and international issues, and served as assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Labor during the Clinton administration.
During her years as a journalist, King was a television anchor in Washington, DC, and also worked for ABC News as White House correspondent during the Reagan administration.
King has reported for CNN and served as host for CNBC's Equal Time, NPR's Talk of the Nation and The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM in Washington, DC. She began her journalism career working for Walter Cronkite before becoming an on-air reporter in Buffalo, New York.
King is a founding board member of the IWMF.
Paula Madison is president and general manager of NBC4 (KNBC), NBC's owned and operated television station in Los Angeles. She is the first African American woman to become general manager at a network-owned station in a top five market. She is also regional general manager for the three NBC/Telemundo television stations in Los Angeles.
Prior to her current position, Madison served as vice president and senior vice president of diversity for NBC. Before joining NBC, she was vice president and news director at WNBC, NBC's station in New York. Under her direction, WNBC became the number one television station in New York. Madison has worked in both print and broadcast news since 1974.
She joined the IWMF board in 2003.
Marcy McGinnis is senior vice president, news coverage at CBS News. Now based in New York, she was formerly vice president, Europe, and London bureau chief for the network. She is responsible for CBS News' worldwide newsgathering and hard news coverage, including breaking news and crisis coverage. She also oversees the operation of all bureaus.
McGinnis has climbed the rungs at CBS, beginning in 1970 when she was hired as an administrative assistant in New York. She was made an assistant producer in 1973, an associate producer in 1976, a producer in 1982, a senior producer in 1985 and an executive producer in 1989. From 1992 - 1997 she worked in CBS' London bureau, first as deputy bureau chief, then as bureau chief.
McGinnis is co-chair of the IWMF board of directors.
Geneva Overholser is the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, Washington bureau. She is a frequent commentator on media affairs, and writes the weblog Journalism Junction at www.poynter.org.
Overholser wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post Writers Group from 1998 to 2001 and, for the three years before that, served as ombudsman of The Washington Post. From 1988 to 1995, she was editor of The Des Moines Register. Overholser has also been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, deputy editorial page editor and editorial writer for The Des Moines Register and a reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun.
Overholser is a member of the boards of the Knight Fellowships at Stanford, the National Press Foundation and the PBS television show Media Matters. For nine years she was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board, serving as chair during the final year. Overholser is a frequent lecturer on journalism issues in the United States and abroad.
Barbara Rehm is managing editor of National Public Radio. She is responsible for both daily and long-term news coverage and for overseeing all news programming. Previously, Rehm served as assistant managing editor for NPR and as executive producer of NPR’s flagship news magazine program, All Things Considered.
Before joining NPR, Rehm was a foreign affairs correspondent for the
(N.Y.) Daily News and United Press International, for which
she was based in Chicago, New York and Buenos Aires. She also worked
as an editor and writer for the Voice of America covering Europe, Russia
and the former Soviet Union.
Teya Ryan is executive vice president and general manager of CNN/U.S. She is responsible for the network’s day-to-day news operation, including all aspects of programming and production. Ryan was named to this position in 2002, having served previously as executive vice president and general manager of Headline News.
Ryan joined CNN in 1990. She has been executive vice president of Domestic Networks, executive vice president of CNNfn, executive producer of CNN & Fortune, vice president of program development for CNN and CNN Productions, and executive producer and creator of TalkBack Live.
Previously, Ryan worked for KCET-TV in Los Angeles as a senior producer of the science and society unit and for KABC-TV in Los Angeles as a producer for a weekly magazine series.
Hilary Schneider was named president and chief executive officer of Knight Ridder Digital and a vice president of Knight Ridder in 2002. She is responsible for the company’s Internet operations and investments in other online ventures.
Previously, Schneider was president and chief executive officer of Red Herring Communications where she re-launched Red Herring magazine and the company’s website. Before that, she served as president and chief executive officer of Times Mirror Interactive.
Schneider spent seven years with The Baltimore Sun, where she worked through the managerial ranks before being named general manager in 1998. Earlier, she was vice president of corporate finance with Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.
Narda Zacchino is assistant executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining the Chronicle in May 2001, Zacchino spent more than 30 years at the Los Angeles Times.
Starting her career at the Times as a reporter, Zacchino worked her way up through the ranks as assistant city editor for government and politics, Sacramento bureau chief, Orange County editor and deputy managing editor. Most recently she was associate editor and reader's representative, a department she created in 1999.
During her tenure at the Times, Zacchino had oversight for nine feature sections, originated the highly successful Calendar weekend section, oversaw three regional editions and was the originator of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. She is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and was 1996 chair of ASNE's diversity committee.
Zacchino has served on the IWMF board for more than ten years.